Kronstadt, Russia, July 4, 2018
Photo: pinimg.com Plans are underway to restore the Cathedral of St. Andrew in the Russian city of Kronstadt, where the great wonderworker St. John of Kronstadt served for 50 years.
The faithful of St. Petersburg and Kronstadt have created the charitable foundation “For the Restoration of the Cathedral of St. Andrew the First-Called,” and the initiative enjoys the support of Governor George Sergeevich Poltavchenko of St. Petersburg, reports the official site of the St. Petersburg administration.
“The restoration of the Cathedral of St. Andrew the First-Called in Kronstadt will begin with archaeological research,” Deputy Head of the administration of the Kronstadt District of St. Petersburg Oleg Kadomtsev said in welcoming participants of the cross procession “The Way of the Theotokos,” which began the day before in Kronstadt.
More than 300 participants of the procession in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God passed through the streets of Kronstadt from the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral to the Chapel of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, located on the site of the destroyed Cathedral of St. Andrew, where a moleben was celebrated.
Kadomtsev also explained that fragments of the cathedral’s foundation were found a few weeks ago during reconstruction work on the square. The district administration has therefore launched archaeological research to determine which parts of the church have been preserved underground, and to establish the boundaries of the great church that was destroyed by the Soviet regime in 1932.
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